The New York Times has assigned their war time reporter Graham Bowley to the arts beat. He’s rewriting an old story from four months ago about how everyone has to participate in art fairs, and middle-tier galleries are getting squeezed out of the market. Dealer Gordon VeneKlasen from Michael Werner Gallery is a primary source for the article because what? This is a dealer who’s been around for 21 years, and very few people in the contemporary scene seem to know who he is (us included). If they’re assigning reporters without the background to match their beats, I hate to think of what Times journalists are missing elsewhere. [The New York Times via: Magda Sawon]

Lynne Tillsman introduces a beautiful short story by Jane Bowles, “Everything is Nice”. [Recommended Reading]

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento’s Art and Law program is accepting applications through October 4th. If this is a subject you’re interested in, then this is the course to take. [Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento]

Bill Goldston, Bennet Grutman, and Darryl Pottorf are trustees of the Rauschenberg Foundation and claim that they are owed 60 million in fees. An expert hired by the Rauschenberg foundation estimates that they are asking for $40,000-an-hour wage. The trustees concede that they did not keep track of all the work they did while Rauschenberg was alive. [The New York Times]

This is fun: Jonathan Jones’s “think piece” on sexism ultimately amounts to a public apology on behalf of all critics. “The bad guys are us, the critics. For art criticism is still a very male profession with very male values.” [The Guardian]

Missing your daily art fraud fix? Turns out that $80 million of “never-before-seen” Rothkos, De Koonings, and Pollocks were fake. [Forbes]

Israel’s top ten influential art people includes no artists and a public relations executive. [Haaretz]

Photographer Jill Peters made a portrait series of “Sworn Virgins”, Albanian women who live as men. According to Peters, back in the old days in the Balkans, if you wanted to “vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants”, you had to be a man. [Petapixel]